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Electrophysiological dataset from macaque visual cortical area MST in response to a novel motion stimulus

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  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany and Goettingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB), University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany and Faculty of Biology and Psychology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen, Germany and Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, Goettingen, Germany

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Published 22 Oct. 2021 | License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License

Description

We provide spiking responses from 172 single neurons in extrastriate visual area MST recorded in 139 sessions from 4 hemispheres of 3 rhesus macaque monkeys. The data was collected across 3 experiments, designed to characterize the response properties of MST neurons to complex motion stimuli. In Experiment 1 ("Spatial Mapping") a small random dot pattern was sequentially presented in different locations across the screen in order to map the neuron's spatial receptive field. In Experiment 2 ("Tuning") a random dot pattern moving at different speeds in different directions in linear motion and spiral motion space was presented in multiple locations across each neuron's spatial receptive field. In Experiment 3 ("Reverse Correlation") a newly developed random dot motion stimulus was used, which consists of a grid of positions, each with a direction and speed seed that determine the motion of dots in the vicinity of each grid location.

Keywords

| Neuroscience | Electrophysiology | Macaque | Spikes | Extrastriate Cortex | Visual Cortex | Motion | Action Potential |

Funding

  • DFG FOR1847
  • DFG SFB889

Citation

Wild B, Maamoun A, Mayr Y, Brockhausen R, Treue S (2021) Electrophysiological dataset from macaque visual cortical area MST in response to a novel motion stimulus. G-Node. https://doi.org/10.12751/g-node.d8yhh8